I can't really trust Amazon reviews anymore. Seems like a number of things happen frequently:
1) Paid reviews, farmed out to India etc. This even works for "verified purchases" for cheap items. 2) Like (1), but to attack and lower the rating of a competitor. 3) Sell a high volume cheap product then switch the title and image to a new more expensive product to capitalize on the reviews (yes, it happens - check the description of the reviews and you'll see it eventually).
I'm sure there are others, but these are the ones I've noticed. I purchased a grill cover that rapidly deteriorated from the sun and frayed in the wind after a few weeks, and am still harassed by the seller to this day due to my negative review. They have offered to more than return the money for a five star review. I won't do it out of principle, but I imagine others would be happy to accept.
As far as I can tell Amazon isn't doing anything to fix this.
They're not. I got a letter in the mail offering to pay me for a review, I mean that literally, offering money. I took twenty minutes to talk to about it with Amazon. It's still up, with three thousand glowing ecstatic reviews and a few handfuls of people who said they'd gotten letters. One even posted a photo of his letter. Amazon is not helplessly besieged by fake reviews, they do nothing even when customers turn down the payment and report it.
I bought an anti anxiety dog collar for my mutt because we needed to board him for a week. 1 day after the collar arrived I got a postcard in the mail from the seller offering $20 for a good review and $10 to call them with my bad review.
I scanned the postcard and added a review with the scam on Amazon. My review was never posted, amazon said it violated their policy.
That was my last Amazon purchase and probably will be my last one ever. When amazon when presented by facts of their system being gamed ce
Yep. I get a few emails a day for months soliciting for Amazon review scams from Chinese Marketplace vendors. All of 'em get reported to Amazon WITH SCREEN SHOTS, and they've yet to do a thing about 'em. It's made me avoid any marketplace sellers. They're all now guilty until proven innocent.
I don't get those. Could it be because I have.cn addresses and all of the goofy vanity TLDs that I've been spammed from blocked in my inbound SMTP mailer config?
Can't trust amazon reviews (Score:3)
I can't really trust Amazon reviews anymore. Seems like a number of things happen frequently:
1) Paid reviews, farmed out to India etc. This even works for "verified purchases" for cheap items.
2) Like (1), but to attack and lower the rating of a competitor.
3) Sell a high volume cheap product then switch the title and image to a new more expensive product to capitalize on the reviews (yes, it happens - check the description of the reviews and you'll see it eventually).
I'm sure there are others, but these are the ones I've noticed. I purchased a grill cover that rapidly deteriorated from the sun and frayed in the wind after a few weeks, and am still harassed by the seller to this day due to my negative review. They have offered to more than return the money for a five star review. I won't do it out of principle, but I imagine others would be happy to accept.
As far as I can tell Amazon isn't doing anything to fix this.
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They're not. I got a letter in the mail offering to pay me for a review, I mean that literally, offering money. I took twenty minutes to talk to about it with Amazon. It's still up, with three thousand glowing ecstatic reviews and a few handfuls of people who said they'd gotten letters. One even posted a photo of his letter. Amazon is not helplessly besieged by fake reviews, they do nothing even when customers turn down the payment and report it.
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Yep. I get a few emails a day for months soliciting for Amazon review scams from Chinese Marketplace vendors. All of 'em get reported to Amazon WITH SCREEN SHOTS, and they've yet to do a thing about 'em.
It's made me avoid any marketplace sellers. They're all now guilty until proven innocent.
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